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Apple’s iPhone Duo, Meta’s Muse AI Agent, Anthropic Researcher Quits Over AI Doom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:20 unnamed speaker A Mac mini refresh. 2 times in the scene
Greg Brockman on Astra and the Future of OpenAI
Astra Reactions, Jobs Print, Cybercab Launch | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:29 unnamed speaker We know that OpenAI bought, quote, tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac studios to do computer use training on, and so the question is, is it only good at Blender?
- ▶ 10:29 unnamed speaker We know that OpenAI bought, quote, tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac studios to do computer use training on, and so the question is, is it only good at Blender?
Meta Settles Addiction Suits, Tim Cook Signs Off After 15 Years, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:48 unnamed speaker Uh, they are focused on AI devices, and people are really optimistic about the new Mac, uh, M-Six, uh, chip, like, just being really good for AI and being something that continues to, to drive value for the company and creates, like, an AI…
- ▶ 19:27 unnamed speaker OpenAI has reportedly bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac studios for reinforcement learning and training computer use agents, while Anthropic rents Mac minis through AWS. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:27 unnamed speaker OpenAI has reportedly bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac studios for reinforcement learning and training computer use agents, while Anthropic rents Mac minis through AWS.
Big Companies Hiring Again, Anthropic's Open-Weight Position, Zuck Backs AI for All | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 33:15 unnamed speaker The other piece of news is that Apple is launching Apple Upgrade next week, then iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch leasing slash subscription program. 2 times in the scene
Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit
- ▶ 10:00 John Coogan Uh, which is a reference to a, an app for the Mac that allowed you to hit, I think, command space and get a finder window to search everything across your entire desktop.
GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:36 John Coogan There's a lot of controversy over the, over the desktop app for Mac. 3 times in the scene
SpaceX Takes Off, Cursor's Wild Rise, Snap Bets on AR Glasses | Diet TBPN
WWDC Kicks Off, Jobs Up, Tech Down, VC Horror Stories Go Viral | Diet TBPN
Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:48 unnamed speaker Uh, the, the Surface RTX Spark dev box is sort of the answer to Apple's Mac Mini custom silicon.
- ▶ 7:12 unnamed speaker Just frying your brain with the Mac mini on your head.
- ▶ 8:34 unnamed speaker Even with OpenClaw's initial buzz driving a surge in Mac mini purchases, it's highly unlikely Apple will create a white glove experience for Microsoft, for OpenClaw, like Microsoft has with Scout. 2 times in the scene
Google Raises $80B, Confidential IPO 101, OpenAI Expands Codex | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 28:58 John Coogan Yes, because you'll be able to, I mean, the, there are a lot of people who, you know, they, as much as they want the Mac mini and the, the, the MacBook pro with the lid cranked open at all times, they want to, you know, vibe code something…
Apple-Intel Chip Deal, U.S Adds 115K Jobs, DeepSeek Eyes $50B Valuation | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:26 unnamed speaker Uh, and so Apple relies on TSMC to make chips for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other devices, and is under pressure to find additional chip suppliers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:50 unnamed speaker The constraints are expected to continue in the current quarter, affecting several Mac models, Cook said, quote, we think, looking forward, that the Mac Mini and the Mac Studio may take several months to reach supply-demand balance. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:50 unnamed speaker The constraints are expected to continue in the current quarter, affecting several Mac models, Cook said, quote, we think, looking forward, that the Mac Mini and the Mac Studio may take several months to reach supply-demand balance.
Neural Computers, GameStop’s $55B eBay Offer | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:59 John Coogan Oh, well, like if you write code, you do get access to it loosely, or if you're puppeteering a browser on a Mac mini, you get access to that.
Jensen on Dwarkesh, Cursor x XAI, Netflix Stock Sinks | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:09 unnamed speaker Uh, it can use apps on your Mac, connect to more of your tools, create images, learn from previous actions, remember how you like to work and take on ongoing and repeatable tasks.
Andy Dunn is Building the App to Get You Off Your Phone
- ▶ 2:53 unnamed speaker We see a lot of people set up Mac minis just to do stuff with iMessage.
FULL INTERVIEW: Apple Exec on How Apple Builds Products That Actually Win
Arm’s $15B Chip Bet, Sanders & AOC vs Datacenters, Meta & YouTube Lose Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 5:59 Turner Novak You see this with what's going on with Mac, where a whole bunch of applications have been, have needed to be rewritten for Apple Silicon, because previously you would have an Intel Mac before we got to the M one M two M three M four M five… 4 times in the scene
FULL INTERVIEW: Mark Cuban on Robots, AI, Self-Driving, and Advice to Students
- ▶ 1:23 Mark Cuban I bought a Mac mini.
- ▶ 2:30 John Coogan Uh, is owning a Mac mini a green flag for entrepreneurs these days?
Tall Poppy Syndrome, Bytedance Gets Blackwell Chips, WSJ Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:23 Jordi Hays From the first Apple computer to the Mac, from iPod to iPhone, iPad to Apple Watch and AirPods, as well as the services we use every day, M-Dash, the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV, M-Dash. 3 times in the scene
Oracle Rips, Larry Ellison's 1997 Vanity Fair Article, Global Fertilizer Crisis | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:51 unnamed speaker It's the original Mac Mini.
Apple’s MacBook Neo, OpenAI’s Pentagon Agreement, Anthropic’s Investors Silent on DoW | Diet TBPN
FULL BREAKDOWN: Apple’s 7 New Devices
- ▶ 0:57 unnamed speaker Have an iPhone, but don't have a Mac.
- ▶ 6:42 unnamed speaker A phone priced Mac.
- ▶ 10:58 Tyler Cosgrove I mean, I, I think the Mac Mini is, like, a good example of, like, AI hardware right now.
Netflix’s Next Move, Zuck’s $170M Florida Mansion, the Billionaire Tax Push | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 10:25 unnamed speaker Does he have a Mac mini?
Netflix Lost. Now What?
- ▶ 11:21 unnamed speaker Does he have a Mac Mini?
Big Tech to Pay for Power, Anthropic Abandons Safety, the Adoption Paradox | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 3:02 Jordi Hays The Mac Mini wasn't even plugged in. 2 times in the scene
Bombshell: Fed Report Says Most Firms See No AI Impact
- ▶ 3:39 unnamed speaker Yeah, the Mac Mini wasn't even plugged in.
The SaaSpocalypse is Cancelled, WB Back in Play, Zuck Grilled in LA Trial | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 8:50 John Coogan Then you'll install Claudebot on a Mac mini vibe coded dashboard on top of a Postgres database and say, we're all just a couple Ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. 2 times in the scene
Post Earnings with Figma CEO Dylan Field
- ▶ 10:45 unnamed speaker How many Mac minis do you have? 2 times in the scene
The SaaSpocalypse Is Over
- ▶ 14:12 John Coogan Then you'll install clodbot on a Mac mini vibe coded dashboard on top of a Postgres database and say, we're all just a couple Ralph loops away from building a Salesforce competitor. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s $380B round, Paramount vs. WB, Higgsfield ragebait drama | Diet TBPN
Why I Spent $70M to buy AI.com
- ▶ 10:33 unnamed speaker Part of this latest, ah, open claw, clawed bot, you know, hype cycle is driven by the fact that you, like, you get a Mac mini, it can talk to iMessage, it can talk to WhatsApp, it can talk to Telegram, it can go sort of wherever you go as…
Super Bowl Ad Reactions, ChatGPT launches ads, Jordi vs France | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:10 John Coogan Somebody said this is a, this is a Windows computer running a, running Mac or something.
Anthropic’s Trust Nuke, OpenAI’s new releases, Google Claims AI Crown | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:07 Jordi Hays So when Mac is like riffing on that, it's like, it's truthful, right? 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's secret strategy behind its Super Bowl ad campaign
- ▶ 1:05 Jordi Hays So when Mac is like riffing on that, it's like, it's truthful, right? 2 times in the scene
Anthropic-OpenAI war, Walmart hits $1T, Gas Town & Vibecoding | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:06 John Coogan Well, yeah, yeah, the I'm a Mac guy. 12 times in the scene
Anthropic Declares War on OpenAI in Scrappy Super Bowl Ads
Full Interview: Moltbook Creator’s First Appearance Since Launch
- ▶ 2:17 Matt Schlicht So, um, what was it, like a week, week and a half ago, everybody's talking about, uh, ClaudeBot, you know, then MoltBot, then OpenClaw, um, TBD on what's, what the new name is, uh, and I was like, I gotta try this, and I know that Peter… 3 times in the scene
Netflix vs Youtube, Saudi Arabia’s liquidity crunch, Tether’s gold pivot | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 27:57 Peter Steinberger So I used FFmpeg on your Mac to convert it to, to Wave.
Full Interview: Clawdbot’s Peter Steinberger Makes First Public Appearance Since Launch
- ▶ 3:41 unnamed speaker Wild is I'm seeing people on Instagram that, like, I don't think of as people that, like, follow tech at all, and they're at the Apple store getting a Mac Mini, so it feels like it just went, almost, it broke containment, like, incredibly…
- ▶ 9:29 Peter Steinberger So I looked at the file header, I found out that it's Opus, so I used FFmpeg on your Mac to convert it to, to Wave, and then I wanted to use Vispa, but didn't have it installed, and there was an install error, but then I looked around and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:06 unnamed speaker Do you own a Mac Mini? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:15 Peter Steinberger He doesn't do Mac Mini, he's just my studios.
- ▶ 24:19 Peter Steinberger I don't think the future would be that everybody buys a Mac Mini just for that, you know?
Clawdbot’s name change, Meta’s new pricing plan, Tyler’s 21st birthday | Diet TBPN
AI's Napster era, Alex Honnold, ChatGPT Ads | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 0:12 unnamed speaker Lots of people going out and hoarding Mac minis. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:37 unnamed speaker And so, despite the Mac mini memes, uh, Apple stores do, in fact, have them in stock.
- ▶ 11:06 unnamed speaker The Brave browser run locally on a Mac mini, so it gets through.
- ▶ 14:05 unnamed speaker By the way, I tried to pull some data on Apple Mac mini sales, just to think if there's a world where this really takes. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:32 unnamed speaker I mean, a lot of people will pick other devices or they'll use Mac studios or they'll use older Mac minis or I know, but something, something about the brand Claude bot and then people associating the brand with the Mac mini.
Capital One Acquires Brex for $5B, Davos’s $500M business, Apple’s Siri rebuild | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 24:19 John Coogan Apple is revamping Siri as a built-in iPhone, Mac, and chatbot to fend off OpenAI, and there's an image here. 2 times in the scene
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:27 John Coogan Siri, because I think the fact that they were on the, on the west coast, was able to get the deepest integration in Apple, sort of win the home button over time, win the Siri button, and eventually they, they teamed up and actually, oh, I…
The Jamie Dimon Apple Card, Greenland Ideas, WB-Paramount, TBPN x Vanity Fair | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:50 John Coogan That was the whole pitch since, I don't know, probably the eighties, like the Christmas time was when people would gift each other Mac books or Mac computers and they built up, built up, built up.
CES’s legacy, reactions to Dwarkesh’s “Capital in the 22nd Century,” and more | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:53 unnamed speaker So they give them the keynote, great floor space, and then all the other independent third party Mac developers.
Reverse Engineering 200 AI Startups, Nucleus Genomics Controversy, Drone Hunting | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:23 John Coogan Uh, camera engineering, iPhone hardware, Mac hardware, silicon device testing, and reliability industrial design, manufacturing, audio smartwatches, Vision Pro development software.
Blue Origin Lands Rocket, Valve Drops Steam Machine, Cantor Group Surges | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:50 John Coogan Uh, so many Mac users wish they could play PC games, but they don't want expensive, complex PCs.
How AI Will Change Gaming Forever | Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki Live on TBPN
- ▶ 8:20 Dave Baszucki does a game run on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, Xbox, PlayStation, Quest, and more to come?
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN
- ▶ 13:17 Satya Nadella I mean, like most people don't get, Office was born on the map before Windows was.
OpenAI Drops A Web Browser? Our Reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 13:27 Jordi Hays Is this a new Mac, MacBook Pro? 3 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 59:56 unnamed speaker And it all is, it all, it's all predicated on you installing a Mac app, which is a really, really hard thing to do. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- ▶ 51:59 Tyler Cosgrove This is just on Safari on the, I don't know, I guess the Mac or whatever it was.
Weekly Recap: Taylor Swift Gets Engaged, SpaceX Launches Falcon 9, Dr. Drew
- ▶ 37:06 John Coogan Apple has spent what a decade getting off of Intel and Intel max and going to sell Apple Silicon, which are like, so integrated, so perfect for the Apple ecosystem. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 1:18:13 John Coogan Um, Apple has tested making Siri look like an animated version of the Finder logo, the iconic smiley face representing the Mac's file management system.
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 24:35 John Coogan Impressive new UI and significant new productivity features on the Mac and iPad, but the lack of any real new AI features, despite that being my expectation is startling.
Is APPLE Headed Downhill? (Investor Breakdown)
- ▶ 15:26 John Coogan Connected to your Mac to replace your six screen GigaChad Finance Bro setup, basically.
DeepSeek Update, Market Crash, Timeline in Turmoil, Is VC Cooked, Zero Cope Policy
- ▶ 9:55 John Coogan You can't just do that level of inference on your Mac.
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 1:23:43 John Coogan They, they use the accessibility features on the Mac app so that they don't need VS codes or text edits permission to go in there and rewrite the code.
Who's Getting Rich Off Ozempic? (e12)
- ▶ 2:32:29 John Coogan Like they're even in the Mac minis now and they're like the size of an Apple TV now and the M four just incredible performance.
- ▶ 2:32:45 Jordi Hays The iPhone has been that for the entire Mac ecosystem, right?